Earlier this week, reports came that Tesla has resigned from her project Dojo initiative. While the reports were originally framed as a negative development for the electric vehicle manufacturer’s autonomous driving effort, CEO Elon Musk later noted at X that Tesla actually stopped his dojo initiative.
Elon Musk’s confirmation
According to Musk, Tesla was closed project Dojo because it doesn’t make sense for the company to divide its resources and scale two different AI chip design. After all, Dojo is designed to train the company’s autonomous driving program, so it would not be rolled out to Tesla’s consumer products.
In a series of posts on X, Musk said it would make sense to just use Teslas AI5/AI6 to train its FSD and autopilot systems. “In a supercomputer cluster, it would make sense to put many AI5/AI6 chips on a table, whether for inference or training, simply reducing network cable complexity and costs with a few size orders,” Musk said.
Teslas AI5 and AI6 chips are expected to be rolled out to the company’s consumer products, from Optimus to Cybercab to the next generation Roadster.
AI6 is dojo’s successor
What was particularly interesting about Musk’s comment was his mention of using AI5/AI6 chips for training. According to Musk, this strategy could be seen as “dojo 3” in a way, as the performance of Teslas AI5 and AI6 chips is already remarkable. Musk’s comment about using AI6 chips for training caught the eye for many, including Apple and the Rivic Alumnus Phil Beisel, who noticed that “AI6 is now dojo.”
“Dojo is Teslas AI training super computer, built around a custom chip known as D1. D1 and AI5/AI6 shares many core design elements, especially the mathematical operations used in neural networks (eg matrix multiplication) and very parallel treatment.
“Dojo had a unique feature: Chips arranged in a 5 × 5 grid using a system-on-wafer design, with etched interconnections that enable high-speed data transfer. In a way, dojo will live on as the generalized AI6.
Elon Musk confirmed Apple Alumnus’ Musings, where CEO responded with an “bullseye” emoji. Musk is obviously excited about Tesla’s AI6 chip, which is expected to be produced by Samsung’s upcoming Texas manufacture facility. In a post on X, Musk declared that he personally would go Samsung’s line to speed out output from Teslas AI6 computers.